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Brite:bill secures €1.25m of new equity funding News
24.05.2012 Dublin-based e-billing start-up Brite:bill has secured €1.25m of new equity funding from The Ulster Bank Diageo Venture Fund. The company is now planning to use this funding to...Categories: Telecommunications, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Investments, Internet, Digital Business -
iPhone and Android own 80pc of the global smartphone market News
24.05.2012 More than eight out of 10 smartphones shipped during the first quarter were powered by iOS (23pc) and Android (59pc) operating systems, according to IDC.Categories: Wireless Communications, Software, Phones, Operating Systems, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Hardware, Consumer Tech -
Donegal school wins SmartClass digital education prize News
24.05.2012 One hundred and forty incoming first-year students at Loreto Community School in Milford, Co Donegal, are set to start studying their Junior Cert curriculum digitally this... -
Edco’s e-books could make textbooks a thing of the past News
24.05.2012 The full curriculum of post-primary schoolbooks for the next school year are available as e-books, as Edco now plans to tackle primary school editions.Categories: Web, Software Development, Software, Mobile, Internet, Finding a Job, Education, Digital Media, Computers, Apps, Application Design and DevelopmentTags: E-book Readers, E-books, Education, Software, Notebook, Laptops, iPad, Tablet Computers, Tablet, Edco -
Facebook spices up its Social Graph with unique user analytics News
24.05.2012 Social network Facebook has added the ability within the Insights dashboard to allow app developers to monitor the number of unique people seeing and accepting their... -
Version 1 creates 26 new jobs at NI Oracle centre News
24.05.2012 Dublin-headquartered IT consultancy Version 1 is to create 26 new jobs at a new Oracle Competency Centre in Belfast.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Servers, Outsourcing, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Economy, Digital Business, Database, CRM, CIO -
Obama gives government services one year to become more mobile News
24.05.2012 US President Barack Obama has issued an order that all government agencies make at least two of their public services available on mobile phones over the next 12 months. -
Yahoo! reveals 'game-changing' Axis browser News
24.05.2012 Yahoo! is muscling in on the busy browser space with its own mobile browser technology called Axis, which it says will redefine search and browsing.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Kilkenny research and innovation centre opens News
24.05.2012 Taoiseach Enda Kenny, TD, is this morning officially opening a new research and innovation centre in Kilkenny. The centre is aiming to be at the forefront of next-generation...Categories: Telecommunications, Science, R&D, Internet, Financial Services, Financial, Engineering, Engineer, Economy, Careers and Employment -
Google reveals new streamlined search app for iPhone News
23.05.2012 Google has completely redesigned the interface on its iPhone search app. In a move quite similar to the recent redesign of the Google+ app, the new app is distinguished by a...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Consumer Tech, Internet, Mobile, Mobility, Phones, Search, Search Engines, Wireless Communications -
Lawyers descend to pick over carcass of Facebook's troubled IPO News
23.05.2012 Little did we think a week ago that Facebook’s IPO would be seen as a tawdry mess. Indeed we all thought the golden boy of social media sites would be a roaring success.Categories: Social Media, Legal, Investments, Internet, Financial, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
The death of privacy News
24.05.2012 A better understanding of privacy is required at all levels of society, writes John Kennedy. He warns that 21st-century technology will stretch the limits and our notions of... -
BT calls on students to enter Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition News
23.05.2012 BT Ireland has launched the 2013 Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, so students from around Ireland have until 1 October to enter their ideas and inventions. -
SAP acquires cloud procurement player Ariba for US$4.3bn News
23.05.2012 German software giant SAP has agreed to buy business-to-business (B2B) procurement firm Ariba for US$4.3bn or US$45 per share.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, eCommerce, Business Software, Apps -
2,300 GAA clubs to deploy Yendo accounts software News
23.05.2012 Irish software development firm Yendo has been appointed as official GAA accounting software provider. The contract is being rolled out to more than 2,300 GAA clubs in Ireland...Categories: Software & Web Development, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Business, Business Software, Apps -
Facebook testing subtle Timeline redesign News
23.05.2012 While the business world is heavily distracted by the social network giant’s declining stock, Facebook has quietly begun testing a new-look Timeline for user profiles. -
Alcatel-Lucent performs ‘heart’ surgery on the web – reveals new core News
23.05.2012 Telecoms giant Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new set of internet core routers and has outlined a new vision of what the ‘heart of the internet should be'. The new core routers...Categories: Web, Servers, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Communications -
Gift voucher giant Smartbox to create 70 new digital economy jobs News
23.05.2012 One of Europe’s leading players in the production of gift vouchers and rewards, Smartbox, is to create 70 new jobs by establishing an international strategy, B2B, project... -
Eircom to exit examinership on 11 June News
22.05.2012 The High Court has approved a scheme recommended by Eircom’s examiner Michael McAteer that will allow it to exit examinership on 11 June. Under the scheme of arrangement...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Internet, Financial, Communications